Users of large codes with large libraries may decrease startup time by
specifying which dynamic libaries they wish to debug.

Select Dynamic Libraries on the Files>Preferences page:

Suppose you were debugging a code that used Python and were interested in debugging only two of the dynamic Python libraries.

List these two libraries
in the left upper pane of the dynamic library option window.

Add
/usr/apps/python/opt/lib/python2.2/lib-dynload in the right upper pane
to filter out
the other libraries.

When either of these libraries is loaded, TotalView will ask:

In the lower part of the page:

Load from these libraries list,

the user may specify which symbols are read for the user specified libraries.

all symbols, (default)

loader symbols, or

no symbols

If you find that you do need the symbol information that was excluded by the above options,
place the cursor in theStack Trace Pane and click the
right mouse. Totalview will then display Load All Symbols in Stack. Selecting this
causes TotalView to read in the debugging symbols for all libraries
in the stack.

By using View->Spreadsheet (2-D arrays)->spreadsheet in the data window,
totalview creates a spreadsheet display of the data. (View->Spreadsheet->column will return to the original format.)
Caveats:
When scrolling vertically through the data, "holes" may appear;
just click on Window->Update to fix it.
It may be slow for very large 2-D arrays.